Xanadu
 

In the quiet of the room, it sits.  A gray ceramic elephant,  with tusks that curve and eyes that glint. Its surface cool, a moonlit...

A fluffy polar bear making angels in the winter time slush.  Underneath is a springtime daisy, waiting to be Picked from the frosted...

The band avoided her thin fingers. As if the rose gold couldn’t bear the touch of her thin flesh and brittle bone,  sliding from raw...

The creek of a floorboard echoing through the hall  or the quiet squeal of a mouse in the corner of a room. The log cabin hidden deep...

The once fertile strip lays more barren than her lifeless inhabitants. Retaliation is condemned by our oppressors. Desperate breaths...

Sometimes the broken light bulb flickering erratically. And others the honey put into warm tea. Sharpened number two pencils or banana...

I see you are out at sea. Remnants of you left on the strand line full of dried sargassum seaweed woven between rotten driftwood and...

In the damp embrace of the bog's embrace, I stand, a guardian of green in the murky depths. My emerald-like leaves, razor teeth, and...

My roar reaps the understory As my strangled stalk emerges from the den, Rumbling the trees surrounding Scaring those who seek me My...

Why must we pay for the crime of being sweet? This I ask to you who pierces my bark, and exposes my flesh to frigid air. You, who siphons...